Reply to post: Re: Goodbyeeeeee

Oops, web trackers may have leaked 3 million patients' info

SloppyJesse

Re: Goodbyeeeeee

their maximum concerns are always the health of the patients profits

FTFY

The information passed to these trackers is on the consumers side private/personal and on the website owners commercially valuable/sensitive. There is zero reason to pass this to a 3rd party 'to see how people use our services'. Any website owner can get a huge chunk of this information passively from server logs with no additional capturing required. If more detail is needed / application is designed in a way that server logs are not useful there are multiple strategies available up to embedding tracking scripts that send data back to YOUR OWN server for further analysis.

But doing that would require time/money, so let's embedded a google tag - Google can do what they like with our visitors data as long as they give us back some pretty graphs.

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